This is a review of our first visit to Athens, and to Greece, in October. It was just myself and my husband G making the trip.
We’d planned this trip for almost twelve months, using Trip Advisor, the Rick Steve’s forum and Facebook and YouTube for research.
I will post this report on both TA and RS, so apologies to those who also read both getting the same post.
We flew in Premium Economy on Emirates from Melbourne to Athens with a five hour stop in Dubai.
Saturday 11th October
We arrived in Athens on Saturday pretty well on time, and were met by Dimitris Nikolopoulos, who I found on a Greece Facebook page, and had organised for our transfers. The company provided an excellent on time service, and best of all I could pay with a credit card and did not need to pay in advance. The cost was €55 each way and it took about 40 minutes to transfer us to our hotel, the Electra Metropolis.
Check in was quick and simple, we were shown to our room, a deluxe room with a balcony and Acropolis view. The balcony was much larger than I expected, and the view was stunning. We got settled in our lovely room then wandered the main street outside. We bought a bottle of wine, then watched the sunset over the Acropolis from our balcony.
After a little unpacking, we visited the hotel’s roof top bar for Negronis which were slightly disappointing as they were premade, before eating a shared meal of meatballs and sliders in the hotel’s burger bar then collapsed into bed.
This report is obviously far too long, as it won't fit in the allowable amount of characters that this forum for some weird reason requires.
I will post each day separately.